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Japanese Anti-Pervert Panties Block IR

In Japan, riding the train in a skirt is still an invitation to have your ass grabbed or photographed by some random perv. These days, there’s a more advanced threat: cameraphones with IR night vision can be tweaked to see through clothes. Cramer Japan made these nylon and polyurethane panties that block IR, hampering the…

Cect Cellphone Watch From China Has Bluetooth, MP3, MP4 and FM Radio

The M500 GSM Watch from Australia isn’t your only cellphone watch option now with the Cect Mobile watch from China. It’s got a semi-decently large LCD, six hardware buttons, GSM support, Bluetooth, MP3, MP4, FM radio and a headset jack. No pricing yet, but it does come in all sorts of colors. [Phone Daily via…

OXO Corn Stripper is Simply Ingenious

OXO’s kitchen gadget for taking corn off the cob combines a mouse-shaped handle with a blade and measuring cup. The only other way to get corn off the cob is with a huge knife (fun but not safe) or manually with your chompers. (Which is not a good idea if you’re meaning to spit it…

Laser Printers May Be as Harmful as Cigarettes

Bad news, office drones: That laser printer sitting in your cubicle might be doing some serious damage to your health. It turns out that one third of all laser printers emit tiny particles of toner that, when inhaled, have similar effects as secondhand smoke. Awesome! The printers are more dangerous when they’re used a lot,…

Japanese Wii Supply Normalizing – US Soon Too?

Akiba blog is reporting that the Nintendo Wii is showing up in Japanese retailers in “semi-normal” numbers, meaning that the incredible demand may have finally faded enough to match the supply. If this holds true for the US, people may be able to get Wiis without stomping and punching each other in the face in…

Wanted: Webmaster for The Week

Java Programmer – Simulex, West Lafayette, IN Webmaster – The Week Magazine, New York, NY Account Manager – Cisco Commercial Accounts – SoCal – Global CTI Group, Irvine, CA (LA, OC, SD, IE) Senior Development Engineer – Permabit, Cambridge, MA Creative Display Technology Architect ‘Rock Star’ – Confidential, New York, NY Front End Developer –…

Xbox 360 Price Cuts: $50 off Premium, $20 off Core, $30 off Elite

New information on the Xbox 360 price drop detailed in the Toys ‘R Us and Wal-Mart ads this weekend. Circuit City is bringing out a full two-page layout with price cuts of $50 for the Premium, $30 for the Elite, and $20 for the Core. Yes, this means all those rumors of the Core getting…

Dealzmodo: Apple iPods Get Small $20 Price Drop

Similar to the way Zunes were discounted, Amazon is offering up $20 discounts on the 30GB iPod and $28 discounts on the 80GB iPod. We doubt it’s related to the new iPods that may be coming, but it’s a good deal if you’ve been waiting for some reason to jump into the iPod pool. [Amazon…

Launch Dates for Motorola RAZR 2 and Q9, More

Every once in a while the so-called Boy Genius actually nails a rumor or two, so we couldn’t help but pass this one along: He’s soothsaying now that the Motorola RAZR 2 V9 and Motorola Q9 will be rolling out on AT&T on August 24. He also has a bit of (possible) intelligence about some…

Dealzmodo: TiVo Series 2 Free After Rebate

TiVo must be wanting to clear out its back stock of Series 2 machines, because we haven’t see many of these free after rebate deals for a while. From now until September 8 (when the rebate expires), you can your own 80-hour Series 2 for $0 after mail-in rebate. Your service has to be activated…

iPhone Keyboard Patents That Never Were

Those dudes at Apple sure love to patent things. For every patent they file that actually makes its way into a device that’s sold to consumers, there have got to be 30 others that just sit there collecting dust, waiting for an opportunity to sue the pants out of the next guy to come up…

Unconfirmed: New iPod Nanos Coming Next Week, Called iPod Touch?

The last few months of iPod rumors have all come down to this, a final push before the supposed launch next week. What’s going to be new? Supposedly, a two-inch-square flash-based iPod that may be called the iPod Touch, based on the fact that it’s going to play back video and cost $299 and $399…

Intel and GPS chipmaker SiRF to team up for GPS and processor integration coolness [Press Release]

Tango Motorcycle is Like a Segway, But Less Pathetic

Sure, the Segway turned out to be a gigantic joke of a failure, but that doesn’t mean the technology from the dork transporter is useless. Some clever high school kids from Canada have designed a really unique motorcycle-type vehicle called the Tango that uses the same balance-based tech for control. Rather than having its two…

Microsoft Adding Extra GPU Cooling to Retail Xbox 360 Elites

Apparently Microsoft has started adding extra GPU cooling to new retail Xbox 360 elites in order to stave off overheating problems (and the three red lights) the units may be having. These added heatsinks were only previously found in refurbished Xbox 360s in Europe, which meant we were pretty much SOL. Ben Heck dismantled a…

Lumin LED Lamps Look Phallic, But They’re Just Flashlights

LEDs are spreading all over the home, and now these Lumen LED Lights have found their way into every corner of your house, bringing a spot of color here and there and adding a little extra style on the way. These 8-inch phallic symbols are available in the colors you see above, and run on…

Sanyo Backup Camera Has New Tricks

Sanyo’s Rear View Backup Camera System claims to have a new twist on an old idea, “AirCam technology” that gives you a wide angle shot of whatever is behind you rather than some annoying fisheye image that’s hard to look at. Mount the tiny camera on the corner of your license plate, wire it up,…

Monday’s Best Posts

Yesterday on Gizmodo we brought you a pretty esoteric bunch of stuff. From seven-and-a-half-tonne bridges made of cardboard to fake iPhones, Samsung cameras, Harry Rotter T-shirts and how to frack like a Terminator, if you missed out on any of these stories first time around, check ’em out now. • The ending to Harry Potter…

Body Energizer Vibrating Exercise Machine Shrinks Something, But Not Your Butt

The Body Energizer Vibrating Exercise Machine claims to improve your muscle strength and bone density, using some magic high-frequency vibration. Doesn’t this remind you of those worthless butt-shaking machines that were so popular back in the ’60s? This one’s makers also boast about how it could actually speed weight loss. They even drop the possibility…

Magical $5k Sleeping Bag Will Solve All of Your Problems

This strange sleeping bag can do two distinct things. First, it can provide a bunch of nice therapies to your body, such as a steam sauna, water jets and oxygen misting. Second, it can easily detect wealthy idiots, as it has a pricetag of $5,000. But it “detoxes liver, gall bladder, and blood clotting cellular…